The transorientation hypothesis for codon recognition during protein synthesis

Nature

Volumn 416, Issue 6878, 2002, Pages 281-285

  Simonson, Anne B ^a   Lake, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CONFORMATIONS; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RNA;

CODON RECOGNITION;

PROTEINS;

AMINO ACID; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

RNA;

ANTICODON; BINDING SITE; CODON; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSORIENTATION HYPOTHESIS;

ANTICODON; CODON; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 0037149518     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/416281a     Document Type: Review

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